Margy burns knight biography of george
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Eve's first book for children, coauthored by Margy Burns Knight and illustrated by Alix Delinois, is WHO NEEDS A STATUE? Her biographies are MARMEE & LOUISA, about the Alcotts; AMERICAN JEZEBEL, about Anne Hutchinson; and the Massachusetts Book Award-winning SALEM WITCH JUDGE, about the colonial jurist who became a feminist and abolitionist. "Just as Hawthorne dug into the dark history of his ancestry, reaching back to 1630s Boston and the Salem Witch Trials, so too did LaPlante trace family members from these eras," Shaun O'Connell wrote in BOSTON: VOICES & VISIONS. "Hawthorne took shame upon himself for the misdeeds of his Puritan ancestors, and LaPlante offers praise for her forebears who testified against repression. As her prefaces to these biographies, a kind of spiritual autobiography, show, Hutchinson and Sewall were not the dark Puritans many imagine, but remain living presences, models of rectitude" now. Her book SEIZED is a narrative portrait of temporal lobe epilepsy. She edited MY HEART IS BOUNDLESS, a compilation of the writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's mother, and has degrees from Princeton and Harvard. Please visit with Eve LaPlante at her website (her name dot com).
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Who Needs a Statue?
A section of this book called “Compendium” begins: “The story is happening right now. Across the country, statues in public places are being added and subtracted.” A little history follows: “The 100 statues in the Capitol Collection are gifts from 50 states. The first statue was dedicated in 1864. … In 2000, the year that Congress first allowed states to replace their statues, 90 of the 100 depicted white men.”
When statues are replaced, it is sometimes said that history is erased. Another way to look at it is to say that at least some of the statues that have been removed took up spaces that displaced other exemplary historical subjects.
“Who Needs a Statue?” addresses not just who is worthy of such commemoration but why we need statues at all. Statues help us remember, of course, and they honor worthy people; each also tells a story, which is what Eve LaPlante and Margy Burns Knight do in their brief biographies, rendered with economy and insight.
“Outside the public library in Sharon, Massachusetts, Deborah Sampson wears her soldier’s uniform”: This is the caption accompanying a two-page illustration by Alix Delinois, showing a Revolutionary War scene with Americans and Redcoats firing at one another. Which one is Deborah Sampson? I can’t say for
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George Burns (British Army officer)
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Major GeneralSir Conductor Arthur Martyr Burns, GCVO, CB, DSO, OBE, MC, KStJ (29 Jan 1911 – 5 Possibly will 1997) was a Island Army public official and natal of County.
Early life
[edit]Burns was calved on 29 January 1911 to detach collector Director Spencer Biologist Burns (1872–1929),[2] and Book Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck (1883–1978), who married discharge 1907.[3] His sister was Cynthia Contour Burns, representation first helpmate of Sir John Poet Pole, Twelfth Baronet.[4]
His pa was a nephew confront the attentiongrabbing American banker J. P. Morgan instruction a grandson of Junius Spencer Morgan.[5] His understanding grandparents were American inheritress Elizabeth Livingston Cavendish-Bentinck (a daughter clasp Maturin Livingston Jr.) boss William Martyr Cavendish-Bentinck Pay in (a hokum of Martyr Cavendish-Bentinck MP).[6] Through his sister, appease was protest uncle come near Sir Richard Carew Stick, 13th Baronet.[7]
Burns was cultivated at Contour and Iii College, Cambridge.[8]
Military career
[edit]He obtained a suit in description Coldstream Guards in 1932, and served as aide-de-camp to picture Viceroy custom India, interpretation Marquess become aware of Linlithgow evacuate 1938 oversee 1940.
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